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(No Model.)

O.'A. WHITE.

GAR FENDER.

Patented June` 30 1896.

W/TNESSES:

A TTUHIVEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OCTAVIUS A. VHITE, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

CAR-FEN DER.

SPCFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,870, dated J une V30,1896.

pplicationiiled January 18, 1894, Serial No. 497,311, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OCTAVIUS A. VHITE, of the city, county, and Starteof New York, have invented a new and improved Car-Fender, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of devices which areused on the ends of cars, particularly street-cars, to prevent peoplefrom being run over by the said cars.

The object of my invention is to produce a very inexpensive and simpleapparatus of this kind, which may be conveniently applied to a car andin which oppositely-revoluble drums are employed, these being arrangedso that in case a person is run down by the car he will be thrown to oneside of the track and thus saved from serious injury.

A further object of my invention is to construct and arrange these drumsin. such a manner that they will not come into injurious contact with aperson, that they will not be in the way of passengers on the car, andthat they will bealways in revolution when the car is moving andstationary when the car stops.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of constructionand combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 'l is a broken longitudinal section of a car provided with myimproved safety appliance. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of the car and thesafety appliance.

rihe car l is of the usual kind, and its platform 11 is projectedforward beyond the rigid and customary fender 12, .which is arranged inthe usual way, but which is bent outward at the top to form asupporting-arm 13, in which are bearings 14 for the vertical shafts 15,which also turn in suitable bearings 16 on the end of the platform 11and have collars 17 resting on the bearings 16, so as to hold the shaftat the right height.

The shafts l have their lower ends arranged close to the road-bed andthey turn in opposite directions in their bearings,

' while the upper ends of the shafts are inclosed in casings 19, whichprevent people on the platform from coming into injurious contact withthe shafts. The upper ends of the shafts are provided with beveledpinions 20, meshing with similar pinions 21 on atransverse shaft 22,which is hung beneath the carroof and is provided with a pulley 23,driven by a belt 24, connecting with a pulley 25 on a counter-shaft 26,which is journaled just be neath the car-roof and arranged parallel withthe shaft 22, the shaft 26 being hung in the hollow front wall of thecar, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, and it is provided with sprocket-wheels26, driven by chains 27, which extend over suitable guide-p ulleys 28and 2S in the hollow walls of the car and are driven by sprocketwheels29 on the caraxle 30. It will thus be seen that when the car is inmotion the shafts 15 are turned and in opposite directions.

The lower portion of each shaft, that is, the part below the arm 13, isformed into a drum by means of a iiange 1S, which is arranged spirallyon the shaft and which is preferably of rubber, vulcanized, and madesurliciently unyieiding to render it rigid enough to throw a person fromthe track, but iiexible enough to prevent it from cutting or badlybruising the person whom it strikes.

The flange 18 is preferably arranged spirally, as specified, a break ofcourse being made in the iiange opposite the bearing 16, so that theshaft may turn properly. Instead of having the flange in the form of aspiral, the drum may be made up of a series of disks, or the drum may besolid with substantially the same effect, although the spiral andsomewhat iieXible fiange is preferable.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the drums willrotate oppositely, as described,.and that if a person is struck by themhe will be immediately thrown from the track aside, and thus saved fromserious in- Jury. I

I have shown and described a simple means of turning the drums from thecar-axle, but it will be understood that any opera-tive mechanism may beemployed for this purpose.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a car provided ICO With asupporting-arm above its platform, of vertical parallel shafts mountedin the arm and platform and extending above the arm and below theplatform, said shafts each being provided With a spiral yielding flange,and means for revolving the shafts in opposite directions, substantiallyas described.

2. The combination with the car-platform having a fender on itsplatform, of the vertical shafts mounted in front of the fender andextending below the platform and the wide, flexible spiral flanges onthe shafts both in front of and below the fender, the said flangesextending the same distance from the shafts throughout their length, andmeans for rotating the shafts,substantially as described.

3. The combination with a car provided with a supporting-arm above itsplatform, of vertical parallel shafts mounted in the arm and platformand extending above and below the same, said shafts being provided Withspiral yielding flanges, casing inclosing the upper ends of the shaftsand means for resite directions from the front axle of the car, j

substantially as described.

5. In a car-fender, the shaft l5 having a Wide flange proceedingspirally about it and formed of india-rubber, the outer edge of theflange being the same distance from the shaft or parallel therewith,throughout its length, substantially as described.

OCTAVIUS A. VHITE.

lVitnesses:

VARREN B. HU'rcHiNsoN, C. SEDGWICK.

